EISPRO Kft.

Ice-cream production

EISPRO Kft.

Ice-cream production

Eispro is the second largest Hungarian ice-cream producer, with an integrated and geographically ideally positioned cold storage logistics business.

The Company was established in 1975 as Budatej. It started producing ice cream from 1979. Both Schöller and Nestle owned the company in the past. Hungarian private investors own the business since 2009.

Apart from being the second largest player in Hungary, with c. a 25% ice cream market share, building on its strong Schöller and Nestle roots the Company has gradually penetrated some of the main Western European markets with its unique, innovative products. Consequently, over half of its total revenues are now realised from exports.

The Company produces all types (and flavours) of ice cream, such as moulded and extruded products, rolls, cones and tubs and sells them to Hungary, the UK, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Ireland and Poland, only to mention the most important destinations.

Its production facility is situated on a c. 33,000 sqm plot of land, located right next to Budapest. The nameplate ice cream production capacity is estimated at c. 20m litres.

Eispro has an over 9,000 pallets cold storage capacity (mainly deep-freeze), in the best possible location in Hungary (at Törökbálint). It provides warehousing, in and out moving, as well as commissioning services to third parties. Nevertheless, the bulk of the capacity is used for warehousing its own ice cream products.

Product innovation

Lupin-based ice-cream

Product innovation

Lupin-based ice-cream

The key product innovation of Eispro was the discovery and mass production application of lupin based ice-cream (i.e. vegetarian protein used, instead of milk) about 10 years ago. Lupin is a environmental resistant plant, with many advantages, such as:

very high protein content (conglutin)

the root of the plant is strongly nitrogen absorber from the air, i.e. no nitrogen fertilization is necessary - smaller ecological footprint

it cuts down the level of cholesterol in blood (also reducing the triglyceride level)

not transgenic

increases HDL-cholesterol level

Nevertheless, it also has some disadvantages that creates difficulties to using it in the food industry. The two main drawbacks are that it contains some alkaloids, hence it tastes sour in its raw form, hence it requires a multi-tier processing to eliminate this negative effect. Also, similarly to soy it can be allergic.

Vegan products

Free From

Vegan products

Free From

Eispro is the only ice cream company in the world that produces lupin-based ice-cream in many different shapes and forms on an industrial level. We have been selling these products to many countries. Our lupin based ice-cream is fully vegan, non-dairy, gluten and lactose free. What makes our vegan products really special is that they are not only healthy, but also taste GREAT!